Paul Houle wrote:
> Hi,  I'm looking for the API call can be used to get the "File Usage On 
> Other Wikis" that is commonly seen on pages in commons.wikimedia.org,  
> for example,  near the bottom of:
> 
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Almogaren_roquebentayga.jpg

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=globalusage&titles=File:Almogaren_roquebentayga.jpg


> I'm curious also about the origin of the "metadata" that's at the bottom 
> of the page...  does that come directly from the EXIF data in the *.jpg 
> or is it stored in a database table and accessable via the API?

It is.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File:Almogaren_roquebentayga.jpg&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=metadata

You can of course mix them, change the output formats, etc. See
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php and http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API


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